uploading kml file via API -> failure

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

Documentation says that it's possible to upload kml file via API.

It's documented here:
http://code.google.com/intl/pl/apis/maps/documentation/mapsdata/developers_guide_protocol.html#uploading_kml
with an example of kml file being uploaded.

I'm following that example - doing ClientLogin authorization and then
POSTing example kml file from documentation. Unfortunately that ends
with:

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

I've tried doing the same with CSV example and ... it worked fine.

So is:
- google api broken ?
- documentation not updated ?
- some other problem ?

Solution is welcome.

[Michael]

Ditto here, and same conclusions - API/Docs problem, presumably.


POST /maps/feeds/maps/default/full HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.19.4 (universal-apple-darwin10.0) libcurl/7.19.4
OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
Host: maps.google.com
Accept: */*
Content-Type: application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml
Authorization: GoogleLogin auth="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
GData-Version: 2.0
Content-Length: 507

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2">
<Folder>
<Placemark>
<name>Hello</name>
<description>Greetings from Lima!</description>
<Point>
<coordinates>-11.968312,-77.066395</coordinates>
</Point>
</Placemark>
<Placemark>
<name>There</name>
<description>Out There Down Under</description>
<Point>
<coordinates>-38.51512,145.34502</coordinates>
</Point>
</Placemark>
</Folder>
</kml>





HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:13:53 GMT
Expires: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:13:53 GMT
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Server: GSE
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0, proxy-revalidate
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: Keep-Alive

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Bad request
0

[Michael]

Submitted issue 2590: http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=2590

[Jeremy Mason-Herr]

The way to make this work is the following: (working example at
www.adventureseed.com)

Create a map with the API
(In order for a map to be 'API visible' it must be created with the API.)
Using the interface at maps.google.com, create something that looks
like what you want to add with the API
Now using the API, download this feature's kml. Remove any parts that
are specific to that item. This is your
template. Use this template and string substitution to make kml for
new features.

here's my template for linestrings:

'<ns0:entry xmlns:ns0="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
xmlns:ns1="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><ns0:category
scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind"
term="http://schemas.google.com/maps/2008#feature"
/><ns0:author><ns0:name>adventureseed</ns0:name></ns0:author><ns0:content
type="application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml"><ns2:Placemark
xmlns:ns2="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2"><ns2:name>%s</ns2:name><ns2:description>%s</ns2:description><ns2:Style><ns2:LineStyle><ns2:color>%s</ns2:color><ns2:width>%s</ns2:width></ns2:LineStyle></ns2:Style><ns2:LineString><ns2:tessellate>0</ns2:tessellate><ns2:coordinates>%s</ns2:coordinates></ns2:LineString></ns2:Placemark></ns0:content><ns0:contributor><ns0:name>adventureseed</ns0:name></ns0:contributor><ns0:title>%s</ns0:title></ns0:entry>'

and my template for points:
'<Placemark><name>%s</name><description><![CDATA[<a
href="http://adventureseed.appspot.com/seed/view/%s">%s</a>%s...]]></description><Point><coordinates>%s,%s</coordinates></Point></Placemark>'

Now make a Feature from that string:

map_item = gdata.maps.data.Feature()
map_item.content = gdata.maps.data.KmlContent(kml=my_map_item_string)
map_item.title = atom.data.Title(text=title)

And upload this!

I'm not sure if this is the only way, but I spent a long time trying
to get other, more documented methods to work and that failed pretty
hard.

Best of luck.

Sent from my iPhone

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[Michael]

Hmm, I have no idea why this works and the example in the docs
doesn't! I'm putting this one in the too-hard basket for now, and
using a different API method =)

Thanks for the info, though!

[Eric]

Everyone please star the issue 2590 that Michael created if you are
running into this problem. I am seeing the same issue where I am
following the example exactly, but get a 400 - bad request.

[Abedon Chen]

Same for me. Already stared the issue 2590.

[Jeremy Mason-Herr]

if you're getting 400 you may have your request url wrong.  I had problems with this and worked around it by changing
my post request to

http://maps.google.com/maps/feeds/features/<userid>/<mapid>/full

also, using 'default' as the user id didn't work
what i'm using as user id is the number that you can find in the feed, but you can also find at the 'my maps' page. 
if you click 'send' you will see a number that looks like this:

msid=109850355599707643870.00048c7a47cc614d67b1

109850355599707643870 is your user id

00048c7a47cc614d67b1 is your map id

i hope i'm right...

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Abedon Chen <softs...@gmail.com> wrote:

Same for me. Already stared the issue 2590.

[Abedon Chen]

Hey Jeremy,

Thanks for you inputs. But I'm talking about creating a new map by
uploading a pure kml. How do I get the <mapid> before the map is
created?

Also, I tried to post a kml to the url you brought up. Http 415 error
was returned saying "Content-Type application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml
is not a valid input type". So the way you suggest seems not working
for this case.

[Jeremy Mason-Herr]

sorrry.  i thought you were talking about uploading a feature to a map.  i have no idea then.  i've always made maps the way its done in MapsExample.py
best of luck

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